DeceMber 2011 | VOLUME 12 | NUMBER 12 Inside Steven Spielberg peter JackSon viggo MortenSen DaviD cronenberg Michael FaSSbenDer Holidays Hottest’ Couple , S Downey piring S ea n iD law i t F talk sHerloCk 26 i PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 41619533 g page 45! SnapS: blake lively, hugh JackMan, Scarlett Johansson, orlanDo blooM COntents dECEMBEr 2011 | Vol 12 | nº12 COVer STOrY 38 JOllY GOOd time Sherlock Holmes stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law had a blast making the first film, so it’s no surprise when they reveal during an on-set interview for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows that the good times continued with the sequel By Mark Pilkington reGulars 6 Editor’s notE 8 SnaPs 10 In BriEf 14 Spotlight Holiday 16 All drEssEd UP 18 In thEatrEs 54 Casting Call Gift 56 RetUrn EngagEMEnt Guide 58 At hoME GREaT lasT-Minu TE 62 Finally... GoodiEs! Page 45 features 24 analYze this 28 What a shame 32 dream team 36 merYl streep X 5 Viggo Mortensen plays Michael Fassbender bares all director Steven Spielberg and in honour of Meryl Streep’s freud in David Cronenberg’s playing a sex addict in Shame, producer Peter Jackson on turn as Margaret thatcher A Dangerous Method. find but he admits it isn’t the first being drawn together to bring in The Iron Lady, we present out why the pair was psyched time he’s gone commando in a comic book hero to life in our five favourite streep to work together yet again front of the camera The Adventures of Tintin transformations By ingrid randoja By MathiEU ChantElois By Mark Pilkington By Marni WEisz 4 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | DECEMBER 2011 EDITOR’S NOTE PUBLISHER SALAH BACHIR EDITOR MARNI WEISZ DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID RANDOJA ART DIRECTOR TREVOR STEWART ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR STEVIE SHIPMAN DIRECTOR, PRODUCTION SHEILA GREGORY CONTRIBUTORS MATHIEU CHANTELOIS, MARK PILKINGTON ADVERTISING SALES FOR CINEPLEX MAGAZINE AND LE MAGAZINE CINEPLEX IS HANDLED BY CINEPLEX MEDIA. 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Plus, on page 45 you’ll find our Holiday Gift Guide, packed with unique and must-have items for the most-discerning people on your list. n MARNI WEISZ, EDITOR 6 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | DECEMBER 2011 SNAPS BLoom and babe orlando Bloom soothes baby Flynn as the pair leaves a Tribeca café. Photo by sPLash news ScarLett’S LiveLy Lift horror hair What a girl won’t do for a pair of Scarlett Johansson sports shoes. Blake Lively lets designer a shaggy new look for Christian Louboutin pick her up Under the Skin, her horror at his New York book launch. movie shooting in Scotland. Photo by henry Lamb/Keystone Press Photo by sPLash news 8 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | DECEMBER 2011 HugH LiKes tea Hugh Jackman enjoys a cuppa at the tea shop he recently opened in New York City. Photo by JacKson Lee/sPLash news toBey’S time warP tobey maguire (left) uses his smartphone (between takes, we hope) on the Sydney, Australia, set of The Great Gatsby, which takes place in the 1920s. Photo by sPLash news DECEMBER 2011 | CINEPLEX MAGAZINE | 9 IN BRIEF On Home Turf: The ChroniCles of riddiCk: dead Man Stalking Vin Diesel If you see Vin Diesel in Montreal this month, the producers of The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking found some cash! The third sci-fi pic about Diesel’s escaped criminal, Richard B. Riddick (the first VanCouVer’s was 2000’s Pitch Black) was slated to shoot in Montreal Mission: this month, but late in October TMZ.com reported that the owner of the studio Loo k LIke INdIa Flynet by Photo where it was shooting here was some saris and palm trees — was they did take after take of the locked the filmmakers out disappointment in actually shot in Vancouver chase scene. because of unpaid bills. India last spring when a couple of months before, It’s not all bad news for Assuming the cash is Mission: Impossible where the streets outside of Cruise fans in India, however. flowing again (and that – Ghost Protocol came to the Vancouver Convention It seems that this fourth studio owner presumed it Mumbai, but without Centre were dressed to installment in the popular would) you’ll want to keep Tom Cruise. Instead, it was look like Bangalore. Not Mission: Impossible franchise your eyes peeled for Diesel’s the second unit that rolled only was Cruise on set, but will premiere in India five days co-star Karl Urban (Bones into town alone to get some bystanders got to watch him before its North American from 2009’s Star Trek) as pickup shots for a chase scene. leap over a car (yes, it’s true, debut on December 16th. And well, who returns as the The scene itself — teeming he does his own stunts, we Cruise has promised to be ruthless Vaako, now Lord of with bright colours, tuk-tuks, saw the tape) several times as there. —MW the Necromongers. —MW The Art Of Film Is it just a coincidence that Kelly Grace’s favourite movie is Rear Window, which stars Grace Kelly? “Yes, it is the biggest coincidence in my life,” says the Toronto artist whose portrait of Grace Kelly in Rear Window (right) is just one of her film- inspired pieces.